If Petra Peña’s fight to keep her cuentos alive after The Collective’s memory wipe hooked you, you’ll be drawn to Jonas discovering color, music, and memory in The Giver. Just as Petra guards stories as a lifeline against enforced sameness, Jonas inherits the community’s memories and must decide whether to accept comforting oblivion or break the system to restore feeling and truth.

You loved how Petra outwits The Collective by carrying oral stories they can’t erase. In The Marrow Thieves, Frenchie travels with an Indigenous found family pursued for their ability to dream—the last refuge of memory and culture. Like Petra’s cuentos of La Llorona that connect the past to a precarious future, the Elders’ stories here keep the group’s identity alive, turning remembrance into rebellion.

If Petra’s secret storytelling to protect her shipmates’ humanity moved you, you’ll click with Ellie, who runs an underground library under alien occupation. Partnering with a music‑obsessed alien, she smuggles banned stories the way Petra preserves cuentos despite The Collective’s erasures. Both books ask the same big question Petra faces: when memory and art are outlawed, can sharing a story still save a world?

If you admired Petra standing up to The Collective—risking everything to keep others safe and remembering old tales—Katniss’s fierceness will resonate. She volunteers to shield her sister and learns to outthink a regime that, like The Collective, molds people into compliant tools. Where Petra wields cuentos, Katniss turns symbols and performance into weapons, fighting for community over control.

If Petra’s growth—from scared passenger to bearer of cuentos—won you over, you’ll enjoy Paola’s transformation when a scientific mind collides with the legend of La Llorona. Petra’s abuela’s stories echo through space; Paola faces those same folkloric shadows on Earth, learning when to trust tradition, when to question it, and how to speak up for the people she loves.